Obama controls the message, for now

By GottaLaff

Obama's campaign is zeroing in on health care:

After days of focusing on the financial crisis facing the country, Barack Obama gave a fresh speech for the first time in a week, trying to open up a new front against John McCain on the issue of health care. [...]

The new timing of the speech gives Obama a chance to dictate part of the narrative heading into the second presidential debate on Tuesday. And, it puts Obama on the attack at the very time that the McCain campaign says it is about to take a more aggressive tone.

Today, it was the McCain campaign on defense, via e-mail at least. In the campaign's third email response to Obama's speech today, Bounds alluded to Obama's ties to William Ayres, a former member of the radical group, The Weather Underground. Ayres, who is now a professor at the University of Illinois, served on a board with Obama and donated to his campaign.

"On a day when new reports have surfaced about Barack Obama's long association with a domestic terrorist, our Democratic opponent had the audacity to call John McCain's health care plan 'radical.' The American people know radical when they hear it, and John McCain is not the candidate in this election they should be concerned about," Bounds said.

Gramm-pa's kneejerk, cowardly response would be laughable if it weren't so reminiscent of outright Swiftboating.